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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July 30, 1903. 



through with much labor and stickiness to 

 secure the same thing which might have been 

 secured without all this trouble. 



The practice of feeding back Is on the 

 principle of producing two crops in order to 

 secure one, and it seems strange to me that 

 any one would argue that such a course would 

 pay in the long run. Even under the most 

 favorable circumstances, such as having the 

 bees finish nearly completed sections of honey, 

 I could not make it more than barely pay, if I 

 counted my time what it was worth to me in 

 other ways. At the close of certain seasons, 

 when I would have a large number of unfin- 

 ished sections, many of which were so nearly 

 finished that a few ouncee of honey would ap- 

 parently finish them, it seemed that it might 

 pay to feed a little extracted honey to finish 

 such; but after a careful trial of the matter, 

 covering a period of some fifteen years, I fin- 

 ally gave it up as not being a paying invest- 

 ment, even in such cases, to say nothing 

 about extracting with the view of feeding the 

 honey for the bees to fill sections with from 

 start to finish. 



It Is generally conceded that the best results 

 can be obtained by feeding the extracted 

 honey right at the close of the early white- 

 honey harvest, so that the bees are kept ac- 

 tive. 



It is generally thought best, I believe, to 

 take away all frames except those which are 

 quite well filled with young brood, when pre- 

 paring the colony for feeding back, using 

 dummies in their places; but if all the combs 

 are filled with sealed honey, except those 

 which the brood occupies, these combs of 

 honey will answer as well as dummies, so far 

 as I can see. You might try both ways, and 

 then you could tell which you like best, 

 should the thing prove a success in your 

 hands. 



I think all agree that this honey should 

 be thinned to the consistency of raw nectar, 

 if not a little more, by adding the necessary 

 amount of warm water. 



Only the amount needed for feeding at one 

 time should be thinned, or two feedings might 

 possibly answer ; for if the thinned honey is 

 allowed to stand long in warm weather it is 

 quite liable to sour and spoil. 



Almost any way of feeding will do. I set 

 an empty hive at the rear of the one being fed, 

 making a communication between the two at 

 the bottom so the bees could come in where 

 the feed was. In this empty hive I placed 

 division-board feeders to a suHicient number 

 to hold 25 pounds of the thinned honey. This 

 whole 25 pounds would be carried out of the 

 feeders the first day, and usually nearly the 

 same amount the second 24 hours, but later 



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